Bill Text: TX SB13 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 4th Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a paid parental leave policy at public schools and an allotment under the Foundation School Program for the cost of providing paid parental leave under that policy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-11-07 - Filed [SB13 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB13-Introduced.html
| By: Johnson | S.B. No. 13 | |
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| relating to a paid parental leave policy at public schools and an | ||
| allotment under the Foundation School Program for the cost of | ||
| providing paid parental leave under that policy. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 22.0035 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 22.0035. PAID PARENTAL LEAVE POLICY. (a) A school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school may adopt a paid | ||
| parental leave policy under which a full-time employee of the | ||
| district or school is entitled to paid parental leave following | ||
| the: | ||
| (1) birth of a child; | ||
| (2) birth of a child by the employee's spouse; | ||
| (3) birth of a child by a gestational surrogate; or | ||
| (4) adoption of a child. | ||
| (b) If a school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| adopts a paid parental leave policy described by Subsection (a), | ||
| the policy: | ||
| (1) must provide: | ||
| (A) eight consecutive weeks of paid parental | ||
| leave for an employee who is the primary caregiver of the child; or | ||
| (B) four consecutive weeks of paid parental leave | ||
| for an employee who is the spouse of the primary caregiver of the | ||
| child; | ||
| (2) must require that: | ||
| (A) an employee be employed on a full-time basis | ||
| by the school district or open-enrollment charter school for at | ||
| least 12 months before becoming eligible for paid parental leave; | ||
| (B) an employee's eligibility for paid parental | ||
| leave expires on the six-month anniversary of the date of the | ||
| child's birth or placement with the employee; and | ||
| (C) an employee who has been granted paid | ||
| parental leave under the policy take the leave concurrently with | ||
| leave for which the employee is eligible under the federal Family | ||
| and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. Section 2601 et seq.); and | ||
| (3) may not require an employee to first use all | ||
| available and applicable paid vacation and sick leave before taking | ||
| paid parental leave under the policy. | ||
| (c) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year, | ||
| the agency shall prepare and submit to the legislature a report on | ||
| paid parental leave provided under a policy adopted under this | ||
| section. The report must include: | ||
| (1) the number of employees who took paid parental | ||
| leave under the policy during the preceding two years, | ||
| disaggregated by school district and open-enrollment charter | ||
| school; | ||
| (2) the costs of providing paid parental leave under | ||
| the policy during the preceding two years; | ||
| (3) projections regarding future participation in and | ||
| costs of paid parental leave provided under the policy; and | ||
| (4) any recommendations for legislative or other | ||
| action. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 48, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 48.157 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 48.157. HEALTHY FAMILIES ALLOTMENT. For each employee | ||
| who received paid parental leave under a policy adopted under | ||
| Section 22.0035 during the preceding school year, a school district | ||
| is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the amount of the | ||
| employee's compensation for the period for which the employee | ||
| received paid parental leave under that policy. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this | ||
| section, this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of | ||
| two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by | ||
| Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not | ||
| receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes | ||
| effect on the 91st day after the last day of the legislative | ||
| session. | ||
| (b) Section 48.157, Education Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| takes effect September 1, 2024. | ||
